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by mhneu 6y ago
At lot to agree with here: [Deep Blue] cannot answer elementary questions about chess such as “If a bishop is now on a black square, will it ever be on a white square?” ... All that it can do is to generate a next move of extraordinary qua
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by mhneu 6y ago
“Dozens of leaked documents from Amazon’s Global Security Operations Center reveal the company’s reliance on Pinkerton operatives to spy on warehouse workers and the extensive monitoring of labor unions, environmental activists, and other s
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by mhneu 6y ago
Yes, it is the low hanging fruit. The risk is also mitigated because if the gene manipulation causes cancer, it should be relatively restricted to the eye, which can be removed in the worst case. For a long time, gene therapy was shied away
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by mhneu 6y ago
The author, Arthur Brooks, is the past president of a Republican thinktank, AEI. Republicans have a strong incentive to encourage citizens to ignore the political news, because their policies are deeply unpopular. Republicans rely on a non-
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by mhneu 6y ago
But the FAANGs have a huge unfair advantage over startups - their size gives them monopoly power that disadvantages small companies. That's a failure of American governance. Economists used to all know that markets needed to be regula
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by mhneu 6y ago
I find you can even make yogurt from slightly sour milk, just by adding a little baking soda. Details: to make good yogurt you need to bring it to 85-90C, which denatures the milk proteins and improves thickening. If the milk is acidic, it
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by mhneu 6y ago
Hold on. Corporate research labs are _fundamentally different_ than academic research labs. Why? Time horizon. Companies will not fund research that has a more-than-20-year expected time to product. Usually, they won't fund things t
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by mhneu 7y ago
The problem with any new media is that wealthy interests quickly figure out how to use it to achieve their ends by manipulating public opinion. Happened with radio. With TV. Now with social media. It's a problem.
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by mhneu 7y ago
This is why the US NIH gives out a lot of $3-5M R01 grants.
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by mhneu 7y ago
Exactly. Labview is a mess anytime more than one person has to maintain a codebase. Source control tools are absolutely KEY to using any language for automation. Which mostly rules out Labview. Do you have any more workshops/hackath
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by mhneu 7y ago
You seem to be making an argument based on what Microsoft says. But of course, what Microsoft says is not the reason for its decision. Microsoft offers an academic discount because it thinks that getting students to use their products ma
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by mhneu 8y ago
This is just a way to calculate a statistical distribution over possible body structures given an image. If the image is bad, the estimates will be bad. Hopefully the probabilities of error are carefully quantified. Edit: speeding up the MC
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by mhneu 8y ago
If Uber and Lyft prices go up 1.5x to 2x, that suddenly means that in cities, taxis undercut them. I'll let someone chime in who understands the taxi business financials better. But in my observations, Uber and Lyft are only slightly
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by mhneu 8y ago
"emergent features" Yes, exactly. Bigger picture: one problem with moving to give algorithms more control is that you can't always anticipate the behavior of algorithms. Especially when the algorithm is being targeted by a
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by mhneu 8y ago
The issue is that the wealthy and also foreign adversaries are exploiting the algorithms to amplify speech that serves their interests. That typically does not serve the interests of average people. The issue is how to avoid exploitation a
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by mhneu 8y ago
How the FISA Court Really Works (Lawfare) https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-fisa-court-really-works Stanford law review https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/is-the-foreign-inte... The win rate is m
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by mhneu 8y ago
NSA disciplines employees who violate their rules on who gets to access data. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/nsa-spi... And senior congressional officials, including people like F
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by mhneu 8y ago
This is well-put. I expected our AI overlords to be robots and talking computers. I didn't expect AI to be a set of algorithms used to subtly manipulate peoples' thinking in such a way they don't even notice. Orwell would ha
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by mhneu 8y ago
When new methods of communication arise, they will eventually be exploited by the powerful and the wealthy to achieve their ends.
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by mhneu 8y ago
Do yourself a favor and just take discrete math 1 and read a few Wikipedia articles instead. +100, exactly. I have some familiarity with mathematical logic, and with Bach (though admittedly I'm less familiar with Escher) and I found
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by mhneu 8y ago
Link to full opinion is here: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/09/25/14... Three-judge panel, 9th Circuit. - Richard R. Clifton, authored opinion (app. GW Bush, Repub.) - Richard
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by mhneu 8y ago
That is a false talking point. The approval rate of FISA warrants does not reflect the strength of oversight. Be careful. There is a lot of disinformation out there designed to discredit democracies. Discussion of why this is false: ht
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by mhneu 8y ago
No. I too once thought that NSA and other Western intelligence agencies were doing things we should avoid. But then I learned the difference between democratic and autocratic regimes' use of data collection. In a word: rule of law
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by mhneu 8y ago
Oy. I use Evernote because of its excellent image markup. You can mix images and text in notes and really document an image-based or figure-based data flow. Not sure if there's any alternative that does this as well.
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by mhneu 8y ago
Not sure but it’s important to remember that silence on issues like climate change benefits the status quo- the companies that wish to keep up the current situation. Avoiding conversations like this is the same as taking a side - the compa
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by mhneu 8y ago
There is a large domestic disinformation machine in the US. The disinformation media has for decades used identity politics to get Americans to vote for policies that benefit the 0.01%. Nowhere is this clearer than with climate change. In
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by mhneu 8y ago
Cory Doctorow on how surveillance capitalism harms you and harms societies. http://locusmag.com/2018/07/cory-doctorow-zucks-empire-of-oi...
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by mhneu 8y ago
Trump is closer to Mao than he is Obama - in Trump's corruption, attacks on the media, attacks on the educated and intellectuals, attacks on minorities, boosting of racial nationalism, and attempts to steal tax dollars and profit off h
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by mhneu 8y ago
Threat model: "surveillance capitalism". Anyone in the ad business has a strong incentive to surveil you to sell or use the data. That's a difference between Apple and Google - Apple is at least partially in the hardware busi
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by mhneu 8y ago
I laughed.

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